Blue Prism ASDEV01 Certification: Associate Developer RPA

Identify blue prism installation requirements by confirming your OS meets minimum specs. Ensure .NET Framework 4.8 is installed, verify in the Microsoft.NET Framework folder, and download from microsoft.com if needed.

Access the blue prism learning edition by signing up or logging in, verifying your email, and downloading version 6.1.0.1 with a 90-day free license.

Install and configure Blue Prism by downloading and installing blueprints, setting up a local SQL Server, creating an admin password, activating the license, and testing the connection.

Navigate the Blue Prism user interface overview to master the six modules—home, studio, control, analytics, release, and system—and learn to design workflows, create processes and objects, and customize dashboards.

Create a simple process in Process Studio by naming, describing, and dragging stages, linking start to end, running, and saving changes with validation.

Explore data item and calculation stages in blue prism by building two data items, computing a sum, and storing results in variables with initial and current values.

Learn how to use Blue Prism's multi calc stage to perform add, subtract, multiply, and divide operations on two numbers, create data items, and view results from a single run.

Explore decision stage in Blue Prism, routing flow by a condition to true or false outcomes. Learn to use variables, connect stages, and end the process with an end stage.

Discover how to use the anchor stage to design and decorate your workflow, linking stages with the link tool to create a clear, well-connected process.

Explore the choice stage in Blue Prism by comparing input against multiple conditions and routing to matching steps, with an otherwise path for non-matching cases.

Explore the collection stage in Blue Prism for storing values in rows and columns, and use a loop stage to perform add, subtract, divide, and multiply operations with updated results.

learn to use the page stage in Blue Prism to split a process into multiple pages and create references to existing pages or new ones for reusable, linked pages.

Configure input parameters and startup parameters to accept values from the main page. Pass number one and number two between pages, then perform addition on the ad page.

Learn how to take input from control room and pass values into a process, including setting parameters, publishing the process, and starting with chosen input for addition or subtraction.

Learn how to pass values between pages in Blue Prism using output parameters, transferring data from a subpage to the main page and storing the result.

Learn how to manage local and global data items in Blue Prism by controlling visibility and sharing values across pages, with practical examples of accessing and calculating data items.

Use the process stage to invoke other processes from a master process, create addition and subtraction sub-processes, and manage data from Excel and queue flows.

Pass values between Blue Prism processes by configuring start parameters in the trial process, taking number one and number two, and sending the subtraction result back to the master process.

Understand what a business object is—a diagram different from a process diagram that interfaces with Windows apps (Excel, Outlook), web applications, and mainframe applications, performing launching, clicking, and logging in.

Discover how to use object studio to create a simple notepad object, organize it in folders, and distinguish internal from external objects.

Compare process studio and object studio: process studio builds processes with a page; object studio builds business objects with initialize and clean up, while only processes publish to control room.

Import ready-made visual business objects (VBOs) into Blue Prism Studio, then use the MS Excel object to read data, store it in a collection, and perform Excel tasks.

Learn to read excel data and write it to a collection using the blue prism action stage. Create an excel instance, open the workbook, and read worksheet data.

Learn how to write a data collection to an Excel workbook and save it in Blue Prism by opening the file, reading data, updating the collection, and saving the workbook.

Learn to build a Blue Prism business object to interact with a Windows application, design an application model, and use the Navigate stage to launch and close Centrex Data Solutions.

Design a Blue Prism login workflow for a Windows application by building a login window with staff number and password text boxes and a login button using UI automation.

Learn to apply wait stages in Blue Prism, using throttle, unconditional waits, and dynamic conditional waits to handle slow applications and network delays, ensuring reliable login flows and timeouts.

Learn how to configure multiple wait conditions in Blue Prism's wait stage to monitor several elements, such as the orders menu, go button, or options, and load pages efficiently.

Learn how to attach and detach a Windows application in Blue Prism Object Studio, verify connectivity, handle launches, and use recover and resume to log in successfully.

Learn to compare global mouse click center and press action in Blue Prism, addressing background automation and the login button not being visible to reliably automate login.

Learn to automate adding new orders in Centrix data solutions by reading Excel data, navigating from login to orders, and filling a new order form with collection data.

Learn to work with dropdowns and checkboxes, select items from a dropdown via item text, loop through an Excel order collection, and capture the reference number after confirmation.

Learn to use the read stage to capture a reference number from a pop up, store it in a collection, parse it, and update the Excel sheet.

Learn to distinguish system and business exceptions in Blue Prism, with examples such as file not found, element not found, and divide by zero, and how to handle them.

Learn how to use exception stages in Blue Prism to throw customized system or business exceptions, set timeouts, and read or log detailed error messages for robust process handling.

Learn how the recovery and resume stages in Blue Prism catch errors, resume from exceptions, and keep workflows running, with examples on application attachment and login pages.

Learn to design block stages with exception handling to manage recovery and resume flows, segregate global/local variables, implement multi-stage recovery, and build a global exception handler for robust automation.

Learn how to read, throw, and rethrow exceptions in a Blue Prism workflow, apply exception handling, and preserve exception type and detail as errors bubble up.

Understand how exception bubbling transfers errors from a login page up to the main page in Blue Prism, and how global recover can resume processing after an unhandled exception.

Apply a retry mechanism in Blue Prism to handle login and file loading failures, using recovery stages, system exceptions, and retry count limits to ensure robust automation.

Learn Blue Prism debugging essentials, including identifying bugs and using debugging options. Master step over, step out, and step to analyze steps, with speed controls for precise execution.

Set and manage breakpoints to pause automation at key steps during debugging, use step over to proceed, and enable break on exceptions to halt on errors.

Learn to control debugging with set next stage and run to this stage, starting from the main page or after resetting to the start, and test login.

Enable calculation zoom in Blue Prism highlights any calculation on a stage, letting you jump to its usage and inspect details like retry count, expression, and base name.

Implement exception handling in Blue Prism to detect and recover from runtime errors, maintain normal workflow, and use custom messages, logging, retries, and stage-specific recovery actions.

Control room enables running production processes from the studio development environment, managing queues, schedules, and resources (digital workers), and tracking running and completed seasons for process deployment to production.

Publish the process to control room by opening process information and selecting publish this process to control room; objects cannot be published, save with a comment, then refresh to verify.

Learn to run and stop a published process from the control room using a specific resource or digital worker, manage seasons, pass input parameters, and stop processes as needed.

Explore how to view and analyze process session logs in the control room, including stage names, results, and parameters, and learn to export, search, and view logs for troubleshooting.

Learn how to create and manage Blue Prism schedules in the control room, configuring daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly runs with specific dates, times, and resources.

Discover how Blue Prism work queues distribute work items to resources, enable first in, first out processing, and support data types, queue management, and detailed item states for complex workflows.

Discover how to create and rename queues in Blue Prism, configure key names and column mappings, set maximum attempts and status, and apply updates in queue management.

Learn to delete queues by emptying items and marking them as exception or complete. Then use the system manager to delete the queue only after removing any process assignment.

Learn how to add items to a Blue Prism queue by reading data from Excel into a collection, removing empty rows, counting items, and using input/output parameters.

Process queue items in Blue Prism by fetching the next item, updating status and flags, handling exceptions, marking completion, and appending data to a main collection and Excel file.

Learn to mark items as business exceptions in Blue Prism work queues by validating quantity against 99, triggering business exception details, and updating status through the handle exception process.

Learn how to retry queue items in Blue Prism by cloning and replaying when exceptions occur, configure maximum attempts, and adjust system vs business exception retry settings.

Learn Blue Prism environment locking to distribute work across multiple bots by acquiring and releasing locks with a unique token and a queue, using timeouts and slip windows.

Learn how to securely manage credentials in Blue Prism using the credential manager, retrieving username and password with Get credential, setting expiry, and assigning access by process and role.

Learn how the IsStopRequested() function provides two stop modes—immediate stop and stop request—to safely shut down the process and applications from the control room.

Master how to create and manage Blue Prism environment variables, centralizing values across processes and objects and updating them without opening code as you move across environments.

Learn to use release manager to create, modify, and delete packages; build and release packages, export and import releases, and move projects across development, testing, and production environments.